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Criminal

A Ring and a Bottle

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In 1895, Blanche Chesebrough moved into a small apartment in Gramercy Park, in New York City. She brought a portrait of her parents, a vase for flowers, and her piano. She later said, “music had been my one absorbing interest,” and that she wasn’t interested in getting married. But eventually, she agreed to anyway. When she returned home from her honeymoon, she learned her husband was suspected of murder. April White’s book is The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier Take our survey: vox.com/podsurvey Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Blanch came from a large family and her parents were not particularly well off.

0:40.0

Sometimes they had around a lot

0:43.4

and they moved around a lot and as they moved around a lot and as they moved her

0:49.2

older siblings sort of married and stayed where they were. And Blanche eventually, as the second youngest of the family,

0:57.6

eventually ended up in sort of the New England, New York area, where she realized how much she loved New York City,

1:06.8

and also that she really wanted to get a music education and be on the stage.

1:13.0

In 1895, Blanche-Chesboro moved into a small apartment of her own in Gramercy Park in New York City.

1:21.0

She brought a portrait of her parents, a vase for flowers, and she brought her piano.

1:27.7

She later said, music had been my one absorbing interest. She wasn't interested in getting married, writing, I wanted my

1:36.5

existence to be fervid and glowing. We're hearing about her from historian and author April White.

1:44.0

What was her life in New York like? How was she supporting herself?

1:48.0

At the time she was singing, singing at churches mainly and making a small stipend each week for being a part of the

1:59.9

choir.

2:01.3

And that was enough. It was enough for her to get by in New York.

2:06.0

It wasn't enough for her to live the life she wanted to.

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